Rodolfo Agosti

Rodolfo Agosti (2 June 1897-30 October 1969) was a Lieutenant-General of the Royal Italian Army who served in World War II.

Biography
Rodolfo Agosti was born on 2 June 1897 in Torino, Savoy, Italy. Agosti served in World War I as an infantryman, and he attended a military academy after the war's termination in 1918. Agosti also joined the National Fascist Party (PNF) of Benito Mussolini in the years following the end of World War I, feeling that the United Kingdom and France had betrayed their promise of giving Italy an equal share of the spoils, as well as that Italy's massive losses in manpower were not compensated. Agosti rose in the ranks of the Royal Italian Army and was given command of the German 65th Infantry Division when it was sent to the Salo Republic as an expeditionary force in 1944, fighting against the Allied Powers when they invaded Italy. On 27 June 1944, Agosti's 65th Division and German 71st Infantry Division fought against Bertram Weir's British 1st Armored Division, 8th Indian Motorized Division, 10th Indian Motorized Division, and Free French and New Zealander expeditionary forces in Tolentino before being forced back. Agosti was imprisoned after the war, and he died in 1969 in Rome.